Washing-machine



(No Model.)

'I. MUNSON.

y WASHING MACHINE. No. 259,039. I Patented June 6. 1882.

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IRA MUNSON, OF WAYNE, MICHIGAN.

WASIHING-MACHINE.

SPEQIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 259,039, dated June 6, 1882.

' Application filed February 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA MUNsoN, ofWayne, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing-liIachines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of that class of devices or machines employed for clothes-washing in which a vihratin g rubber having an gularly disposed strips is used in connection with a tray also having angularly-disposed strips and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe machine, with a portion of the shell broken out to show the interior arrangement of parts. Fig. 2 is a detached view, in perspective, of the vibrating rubber. Fig. 3 is a like view of the removable stationary rubber.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the tub of a machine,rectan gular in form, open at top, with a tight bottom and downwardly and inwardly sloping ends. Standards B are secured centrally and'one on each side of the tub, and these standards are provided upon their inner faces with vertical channels b, to receive the shaft 0 of the rotating rubber 0. These channels allow of avertical' play of the stationary rubber to enable it antomatically to conform its position to the amount or mass of clothes in the tub, and at the same time prevent any lateral motion of said shaft. The rubberO is made of two segments of circles, (1, arranged coincident to each other, hung upon the shaft, and upon the periphery of these segments is secured a series of square slats, so laid intothe periphery. of the segments as to present the corners, as shown in Fig. 2. Handles or arms 6 are secured to the sides of the segments, eccentric thereto and concentric tothe shaft, so that when in a normal condition the handle 6 at the end of these arms projects toward one end of the tub. Upon the side of these segments-adjaeent to the position where the arms are secured and projecting slightlybeyond the ends of the arms-4s secured what may be termed a retracting-p1ate,f.

A frame, D, of the form shown in Fig. 3, is constructed to fit inside and rest uponthe bottom of the tub A.

Arranged in a circular form, or partially circular, to conform to the periphery of the segments of the rotary rubber, is a series of 66 square slats, set in diamond shape, so as to present the corners of the slats upwardly, and in each end of this frame or stationary and removable rubber are secured two plates, 9 g, the outer edges of which are cut away in the C 5 center slightly, as shown, so as to produce concavities to allow the free passage of water between said plates and the ends of the tub, and yet allow the said frame or tray D to fit tightly at its sides and corners in the tub, to 70 prevent accidental displacement.

Inoperation, the parts being all in place and the tub being partially filled with water or suds, the-clothing to be washed is placed between the stationary and the rotating rubbers, and a rocking motion communicated to the vibrating rubber by means of the handles. In the downward motion of the handle the clothes are pressed between the two rubbers and forced toward the rear of the machine until they strike the plate 9 in'the stationary rubber at that end. The reverse of this motion brings the plate f on the side of the segments into contact with the clothing resting against the plate in the frame and forces such material 8 back to its original position, and these motions are continued, by which arubbin g of the clothes is produced, which, at every reverse motion, are turned over to present anew surface to the next movement.

The turning of the clothes is produced by the plates f g, as follows: When the clothes are placed in the machine the downward movement of the handles causes the vibrating rubber to rub the clothes over the angularly-placed ribs 5 of the frame or tray D until they reachthe plate 9, which, by reason of its right-angle edge presented to the clothes, holds the same, when the reverse movement of the rubber causes its angularly-placed ribs to rub over the I00 clothes until the right-angle edge of the plate f reaches them, when, as the movement is continued, they are turned over and rubbed again.

I am aware that vibrating rubbers and sta- 5 tionary trays, both having angularly-disposed ing right-angle or square edges next to the angularly-disposed ribs, substantially as and 15 for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the tub A and the vibrating rubber G, the removable frame or tray D, and the plates g g of said frame, having concave outer surfaces, substantially as 20 and for the purpose specified.

IRA MUNSON.

Witnesses: II. S. SPRAGUE, E. SCULLY. 

